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first, second, and third figures were quite normal in shape, but 

 the last letter had been widened out to three times its original 

 size. The Simple-leaved Ash near Lady Jane's Cottage was 

 visited. It had not begun to leaf for the season. The bark 

 difiers from that of the common Ash in being smoother. This 

 tree is becoming thickly covered with Ivy. Mr. John Smith 

 conducted the party. 



Kilmalcolm, 10th June, 1899. — The district between Kilmal- 

 colm and Langbank was visited on this date, but there was a very 

 poor turn-out of members. Prof. G. F. Scott-Elliot acted as 

 conductor. Among flowering plants noted were Ranunculus 

 hederaceus, Linn., Sagina suhulata, Presl., Potamogeton pectinatus, 

 Linn., Car ex limosa, Linn., C. vulgaris, Fries, C. rostrata, Stokes, 

 C. canescens, Linn., Ornithogalum umhellatum, Linn., naturalised, 

 Saxifraga hirta, Donn., established. Fungi noticed were Coleos- 

 2)orium, sonchi, Pers., Uromyces alchemillce, Pers., ^cidium grossu- 

 larice, DC. The green alga Chcetophora tuberculosa, Hook., was 

 observed. 



Innellan, 5th August, 1899. — A joint excursion took place on 

 this date with the Geological Society of Glasgow, and was fairly 

 attended. The Geological Survey of Scotland recently published 

 a Memoir of the Geology of Cowal, chiefly the work of Mr. T. C. 

 Clough, M.A., F.G.S., and the object of this excursion was to 

 examine a very small part of this district — viz., the section as it 

 is exposed between Innellan and Dunoon. This section begins a 

 little to the south of Innellan Pier, near the place that a fault has 

 thrown down the Upper Old Red Sandstone, which is still pre- 

 served between Innellan and Toward. The first part examined 

 was a crush-breccia of green serpentine, the pieces of serpentine 

 reaching 9 or 10 inches in diameter. The origin of this serpentine 

 is not easy to explain, but probably it was derived from a former 

 igneous augite-bearing rock. Proceeding towards Dunoon, bed 

 after bed of schists, evidently of sedimentary origin, is passed 

 over, all of them so much metamorphosed that the original deriva- 

 tive has been entirely lost, having been converted into greywackes 

 and phyllites. The rocks between Innellan and Dunoon are nearly 



